> Everyday, there’s a new form, a new guideline, a new protocol, a new health software, a new policy all dictating, restricting and modifying clinician activities.
I felt this one... Takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.
The entire loss of support section is way too real. I'd almost forgotten what that sort of institutional chaos felt like. So glad I don't work in a hospital anymore. It kills you inside.
Loss of meaning was different for me. The author seems to long for patient contact... Just as easy to lose meaning there, I'm afraid. It's just as tiresome but in a different way. The repetitiveness can easily lead to a sort of depersonalization.
> What I am realising is that today in modern medicine, a doctor is just one of the many commodities in this complex industry.
This could be a fourth chapter all of its own: loss of autonomy.